Thank you, those are some interesting/good use cases indeed!

What do you use it for?
I’ve had it for a while,
but ended up uninstalling it,
since I could not think of a good use case.

To me this sadly is a clear sign that Bethesda has peeked.

They’ve re-released Skyrim a billion times, now they’re re-releasing Oblivion, no news if The Elders Scrolls 6 development has even started yet, and Starfield is a hot mess.

Feels like they’re milking out the last possible drops of profit out of their IPs before closing down…

Been using VSCodium for a few years now, for loose file editing,
no complaints about it, imo it’s what VSCode should be.

uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot bloat on Github
uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

github.com##.copilotPreview__container
github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##li.TimelineItem:has-text(Copilot)
github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
github.com###copilot_free_global
github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
github.blog##article.changelog-label-models

Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot

Oh wow did not know that.

Well, if them spying on you and selling your data was not enough to make you switch to an alternative, then maybe/hopefully lack of search operators will be!

You can use the - (minus) sign,
which excludes pages that contain the word which has the - in front of them.

For example, currently I’m replaying GTA V single player, but when I search for content related to it, I’m often given articles about the online version.

To solve that I search:

GTA V <insert-topic-of-interest> -online

Which excludes all articles containing the word online.

I use SearXNG though,
but afaik this is implemented by most search engines.

My coping mechanism:
Block/filter out the news!
(Except for positive/uplifting news)

It does wonders for your mental health!

Most news sources are for-profit,
and they did some research,
apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.

Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.

Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!

Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.

So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)

This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.

Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.

They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.

China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: “Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it”

Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they’re reminded of the risks which it brings! :)

I posted a guide last year on how to do it on Eternity for Lemmy:

https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026

Look it up on PCGamingWiki,
they usually list all configuration + compatibility changes that need to be tweaked:

https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home

Pro or anti consumer features? x’)

That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D

Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets.

Khajiit has wares if you have coin.

I have an MSI Bravo 17 for work since this month,
quite happy about it so far.

My experience with MSI is best price/value for hardware specs, but with shitty build quality.

However this one feels quite sturdy compared to earlier MSI laptops.

It can get loud under heavy duty,
but it goes quiet again under low workload,
for now at least, my previous MSI laptop sounded like a jet engine whenever it was powered on.

The one you posted seems particularly suited to run Linux upon, since it’s an all AMD machine, and their Linux support is great.

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It’s not LibreWolf, but how about IceRaven?
https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

Has been my goto FireFox fork for Android for years.

Do you hear that?

That’s the sound of DMCAtendo’s lawyers marching out to ruin another fan project.

No, instead they raped his rights with some ToS…